Carbondale Middle School

Carbondale Middle School operates as a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Carbondale, Illinois, operated by Carbondale ESD 95. Current enrollment sits at 457 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Carbondale ESD 95 runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,648 students. Carbondale Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Carbondale Middle School reports that 48% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 25% White, 12% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 73% of students at Carbondale Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Carbondale Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.2%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jackson County) records that the typical household earns roughly $48,763 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jackson County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,811 students), of which Carbondale Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lewis School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Carbondale Middle School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carbondale Middle School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 44.8%.

Carbondale Middle School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carbondale Middle School has expanded 7%, going from 427 students in 2018 to 457 in 2025.

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